Remembering Miss Ella

Remembering Miss Ella. Few restaurateurs have been as influential as New Orleans matriarch Ella Brennan who died on May 31.

Remembering Miss Ella

The New Orleans matriarch is credited with creating nouvelle Creole cuisine. "Today we lost a family member and New Orleans lost a legend," New Orleans restaurateur Dickie Brennan wrote in an email of his aunt Ella Brennan's death at the age of 92 on May 31.